Word: scar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, a twelve-year-old Hiroshima schoolboy with a ragged scar over his left eye peered at a TIME correspondent through glasses he has worn ever since the bombing. Said Hiroshima's child: "You American? American soldier good. Americans number one." His mother and sister, he said, had been killed by the bomb...
...Scar-faced Giichi Matsuda, known to his fellow gangsters as "The Intellectual" because he was a high-school graduate, was fascinated by the newfangled ideas of democracy and progress. Last December, when he became boss of the 2,000 open-air shopkeepers (tekiyas) in the Matsuzakaya street gang, he tried to put the ideas into practice. Last week they proved his downfall...
...Huneik ("Father of the Jaw") because of the World War I scar on his chin...
Then, on a gloomy midnight last December, especially irreverent and irresponsible vandals went to work on the bust with a hammer. Result: no nose, a gouged-out chin, a scar on the left cheek, a chewed-off ear. This, the London constabulary decided, was too much of a good thing. The memorial was covered with a huge black tarpaulin and three bobbies detailed to perpetual guard duty...
SODIUM MORRHUATE, a codliver-oil derivative, has been improved for treatment of varicose veins. Injected into the affected area, the drug kills blood-vessel cells, causes scar tissue which blocks the flow of blood. Diseased veins are short-circuited; neighboring healthy veins take over the traffic...